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Dear _________________,

We are writing concerning a judgment
of the Minors Court in Venice, Italy in the case of Nitzan and Danielle Dulberg. This
devastating judgment will separate these two young Israeli girls from not only their
mother, but from their Israeli culture and their religious heritage, forcing upon them a
way of life that is not in accordance with their will. Most shocking, this decision by the
Venice Minors Court was based on little more than the vilification of traditional Judaism.
In our opinion the Court has separated the girls from their mother alleging that she
"belongs to a religious cult," namely Orthodox Judaism. This is a libelous and
utterly untenable assertion.

Among other rulings, the Court has
forbidden the girls to speak Hebrew, even to their own mother, and has demanded that they
attend a non-Jewish school. Nitzan and Danielle will be prevented from having any
connection to their Jewish traditions with which they identify deeply.

We are shocked and dismayed by this
denial of the girls basic rights and by this prejudice towards the Jewish religious
community. The fact that an arm of the Italian justice system would depict the Jewish
religious community as a dangerous cult that mistreats children is not only completely
false and misleading, it perpetuates the ancient prejudice towards religious Jews, with
all its serious consequences.

The anti-religious attitudes and the
conduct of this Court which has ridiculed Orthodox Jewish practices and demonstrated the
most callous treatment of the two Dulberg girls is appalling. The violation of their basic
right of freedom of religion is in contravention to the UN International Convention on the
Rights of the Child and defies the image of the Italian justice system as an enlightened
and modern democracy. Refusal of the Court to admit the evidence of distinguished Israeli
legal scholars and reliable authorities who would present Orthodox Judaism as it truly is,
a religion that advances values that benefit children and teaches educational values, love
of G-d, respect of parents and love of man, is unconscionable.

In the interest of upholding the
image of the Italian justice system as enlightened and democratic, we respectfully urge
you to take every step necessary to see that the Court decision libeling Orthodox Judaism
and denying the Dulberg girls their basic human rights is overturned. Depicting a
community in Israel as one that acts against the good of children is a perverted
distortion that encourages hate and prejudice and should be repudiated.